Interesting Links for 16-12-2024

Dec. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-06-2024

Jun. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Alzheimer's disease continues to elude a breakthrough treatment. What are we missing?
(tags:alzheimers disease research )
2. Labour Party tried to gag Black lawyer who wrote party's own racism report
(tags:Labour racism OhForFucksSake )
3. Boil the Frog - find a path between any two bands
(tags:music )
4. Using MRI to identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression and anxiety
(tags:depression anxiety psychology neuroscience mri )
5. Framework launched to transform water safety in Edinburgh schools
(tags:swimming scotland children )
6. Do you work in Wildfire Control and Prevention? Then you need the Thermonator Flamethrower Robot Dog!
(tags:robots dogs fire )
7. Tory director of campaigning takes 'leave of absence' as election betting scandal grows.
(tags:Conservatives corruption gambling elections incompetence )
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Interesting Links for 05-12-2023

Dec. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people
(tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency
(tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )
3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
(tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )
4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition)
(tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )
5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces
(tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )
6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu)
(tags:Muppets Christmas Disney )
7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things)
(tags:lead health )
8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable
(tags:neuroscience eyes humans )
9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.
(tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )
10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas
(tags:edinburgh zoo panda )
11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"
(tags:mars space epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2023

Nov. 23rd, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 14-11-2023

Nov. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Scientists perplexed to find each nostril works separately to sense world
(tags:smell noses )
2. If the UK government wants parents to work then wraparound care needs to be fixed
(tags:parents work childcare uk )
3. Nearly Everyone With Mild Cognitive Impairment Goes Undiagnosed
(tags:brains neuroscience fail )
4. 'Coyote vs. Acme' Shelved by Warner Bros, Taking $30M Tax Writeoff
(tags:movies business OhForFucksSake )
5. US election results show rights still bewilderingly popular
(tags:rights women USA politics funny )
6. Dutch elections: is a new version of PR on the way?
(tags:Netherlands proportional_representation )
7. When Israel-Palestine Peace Was Within Reach
(tags:Israel Palestine history )
8. What words were added to the dictionary the year you were born? (Gaia, Bipolar Disorder, and Woke for me)
(tags:words history dictionary )
9. What's Biden's record on trans rights?
(tags:transgender politics USA democrats )
10. "I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me."
(tags:school Education children politics usa )
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Interesting Links for 17-08-2023

Aug. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2023

Aug. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 03-05-2023

May. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Duke of Edinburgh: Edinburgh council urged not to recognise Royal pair's 'illegitimate' titles
(tags:edinburgh monarchy )
2. Keir Starmer breaks another pledge - this time on scrapping university tuition fees
(tags:labour university fees tuition )
3. How do people feel about bill-splitting in restaurants?
(tags:money friendship )
4. Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People's Minds
(tags:neuroscience brain stories )
5. Why can you use the 60+ Oyster card as voter ID, but not the 18+ Student Oyster card?
(tags:IDCards uk )
6. AI chatbots pass next intelligence milestone after researchers fail to find a single AI that would vote for Brexit
(tags:ai uk europe funny viaMyBrotherHugh )
7. Lothian Buses Service change from Sunday 28 May (some pretty major changes, including my bus no longer going home->work)
(tags:buses edinburgh transport )
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2023

Mar. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 26-12-2022

Dec. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2022

Oct. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. When the police are injured at Notting Hill Carnival how did it happen?
(tags:police festival assault )
2. Oblivion Mod Lets Players Order A Pizza Straight From the Game
(tags:pizza games )
3. Why the Chancellor of Exchequer should read the book he wrote
(tags:UK politics history conservatives epicfail )
4. "Free speech" networks and anti-semitism
(tags:freespeech bigotry Jews )
5. What's expected of us (a short story about free will and time travel)
(tags:timetravel FreeWill short_story scifi )
6. Scientists identify gene associated with strong immune response to Covid jabs (30% of UK people have it)
(tags:pandemic vaccination genetics )
7. A dish of neurons may have taught itself to play Pong (badly)
(tags:neuroscience games brain )
8. Having a baby? Sorry, your social life is over for the next 15 years (I'm very glad that I was 45 when it happened, and didn't mind too much)
(tags:babies funny life )
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Interesting Links for 15-12-2021

Dec. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm
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The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!
(tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )
Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme
(tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )
Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023
(tags:Scotland recycling )
Omicron has an R over 5 and a doubling time of 2 days
(tags:Pandemic Doom )
Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh
(tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )
Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave
(tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
(tags:religion usa )
Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells
(tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )
The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts)
(tags:depression neuroscience fmri )
Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains
(tags:pandemic virus )
HTTP/3 is Fast
(tags:web http )
Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010
(tags:batteries economics )
UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron
(tags:uk nhs doom )
What it's like making friends with men
(tags:men friendship comic funny )
Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis
(tags:malta marijuana legalisation )
'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20
(tags:lotr history movies )
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Interesting Links for 11-11-2021

Nov. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm
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The Americans Are Not Impressed By The UK’s Threat to Invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol
(tags:uk usa trade doom politics )
The secret 1930s court case that led to transgender people losing their rights
(tags:law UK history transgender LGBT ViaDrCross )
Psilocybin trial finds psychedelic is effective in treating depression - but has side-effects
(tags:psilocybin depression research )
Remember, brave soldiers fought and died for your right to wear the remembrance thong
(tags:clothes war history wtf )
White House hails vaccine mandates as number of unvaccinated drops 40%
(tags:vaccination usa pandemic GoodNews )
How Are Kids Handling The Pandemic? We Asked Them.
(tags:children pandemic psychology )
North Carolina Republicans Passed A Heavily Skewed Congressional Map. How Will The Courts Respond?
(tags:voting bias usa republicans OhForFucksSake )
Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy at 18 words per minute
(tags:brain neuroscience writing )
What Norwegians are learning as they pioneer autonomous ships
(tags:automation boats )
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Interesting Links for 13-06-2021

Jun. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-05-2021

May. 16th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Lavazza group are upset about a footballer defending Palestine
(tags:Palestine coffee football )
'Pan-coronavirus' vaccine shows early promise in monkeys and mice
(tags:mice disease virus vaccine )
Rules for UK citizens visiting France
(tags:UK France )
Gender explains only about 1% of total brain variance
(tags:gender brain neuroscience )
Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Arse
(tags:Oxygen mammals wtf )
Israel-Palestinian conflict: False and misleading claims fact-checked
(tags:Israel Palestine facts )
UK Blood Donation is getting more inclusive
(tags:blood UK )
Interviewing people on the streets in Israel to see what they think about Palestinians
(tags:Israel genocide OhForFucksSake video )
Four King Maps (what 3 words, but with swearing)
(tags:swearing maps )
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Interesting Links for 18-03-2021

Mar. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Spain's high Covid mortality rate was caused by storing age as 2 digits. So people over 100 looked like children...
(tags:age computers death pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Scotland's train operator ScotRail to be nationalised
(tags:Scotland railways )
Want to play FIFA Ultimate Team without being at a disadvantage? You'll need to play for 69 days without sleeping or pay tens of thousands of pounds
(tags:football games money OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
NHS warns of significant reduction in vaccines at the end of March (all over 50s should still be fine)
(tags:UK vaccine pandemic )
How the brain stores an analogue representation of a spatial memory
(tags:brains location neuroscience )
Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants
(tags:visa bitcoin )
It is impossible to parody the Men's Rights groups. They are beyond it.
(tags:men OhForFucksSake rights )
Major new study shows ancient international trading routes between Exeter and Europe
(tags:history UK Europe viaDanielDWilliam )
Accountants: Government to break up dominance of Big Four firms
(tags:accounting UK )
Reddit-based investors adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days (over three times as many as there are)
(tags:gorillas GoodNews reddit )
Why men get away with assault on women
(tags:assault law UK )
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2020

Dec. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap
(tags:solarpower thefuture GoodNews viaDanielDWilliam )
Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten man security team in Norway
(tags:saudiarabia Norway )
A Ban On "Medieval" Virginity Testing In The UK Has Passed First Commons Hurdle
(tags:virginity UK law )
Tory party urges activists to campaign like Trump by 'weaponising fake news'
(tags:conservatives fraud OhForFucksSake )
Canada set to raise carbon price considerably over next decade
(tags:co2 globalwarming Canada economics )
All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth's Organisms
(tags:humans nature earth )
Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
(tags:UK privacy Facebook )
Warner Bros would love you to die for Wonder Woman 1984
(tags:movies pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Master of the Pecos River
(tags:rivers water Texas USA )
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
(tags:language program neuroscience brain )
Pregnant women allowed partner 'at all times' as NHS changes covid rules
A few months late for us, but hopefully life will be easier for new parents now.
(tags:NHS pregnancy pandemic )
The AI in the Cyberpunk game can't drive. And hides that from you.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1338929166301990914.html
(tags:games design driving OhForFucksSake )
Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon's birthday
(tags:birthday surgery death healthcare )
Child abuse gangs in the UK are mostly white
(tags:race abuse children UK racism )
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2020

Nov. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Dominic Cummings Is Gone. But What Does His Reign Tell Us About Boris Johnson?
(tags:BorisJohnson UK politics Doom )
Do not pet, touch, talk to, talk about, or otherwise interact with service animals
(tags:pets dogs animals disability )
There's a link between traffic-related air pollution and mental disorders
(tags:mentalhealth pollution traffic )
Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause
(tags:death food )
Remembering strengthens memories. Here's how that works
(tags:memory brain neuroscience )
Amazon declares that Northern Ireland is no longer part of the UK
(tags:Amazon NorthernIreland uk )
There's a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors (because they don't trust pollsters enough to answer questions)
(tags:conspiracy polls USA )
The Falkland Islands are landmine free for the first time in 38 years
(tags:falklands military GoodNews )
Near Donegal the trees are on the march
(tags:trees video Ireland wtf )
We could be detecting half of Covid carriers with cameras. Why aren't we?
(tags:pandemic temperature cameras )
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2020

Nov. 12th, 2020 12:00 pm
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"My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania"
(tags:USA voting )
Dwayne Johnson is rebooting The Scorpion King
(tags:movies )
So, how is the USA managing its Covid-19 response?
(tags:USA pandemic epicfail )
Our Brains Have Two Distinct "Beauty Centres": One For Art And One For Faces
(tags:beauty faces art psychology brain neuroscience )
Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing (I suspect that being more authentic generally would do the trick, hiding who you are is exhausting and stressful)
(tags:psychology happiness socialmedia )
Boris Johnson picks pro-fracking Tory MP who has campaigned against wind farms as 'climate change champion'
(tags:globalwarming conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Capital gains tax: Rate should double, says government review
(tags:UK tax )
Behold! The most Irish of all films!
(tags:Ireland movies satire trailer funny )
A focus group on Trump voters finds out what they really think. (Interesting on defunding the police)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326210279387099136.html
(tags:voting usa )
COVID-19 Daily Dashboard for Scotland (broken down by neighborhood)
(tags:pandemic Scotland visualisation viaDanielDWilliam )
The Polls Weren't Great. But That's Pretty Normal.
(tags:polls USA politics )
Good statues of women
(tags:women statue )
Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter bears
(tags:robots wolves bears )
How Brexit will make it much much harder for artists and musicians to tour in Europe
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326554078256656389.html
(tags:music Europe UK Doom )
New project at Oxford University explores the origins of money
(tags:money prehistory research )
Politics versus policy, and why the approach of Johnson and Cummings to exercising power is going so badly
(tags:politics government UK )
There is no evidence that suicides have increased 200% under lockdown
(tags:suicide pandemic )
Will government lockdown shopping loopholes destroy the high street?
(tags:shopping UK doom )
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Interesting Links for 07-09-2020

Sep. 7th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Son sells 28 years of birthday whisky to buy first home
(tags:alcohol Scotland housing )
Bank security update leaves people guessing what their name is
(tags:names security banking OhForFucksSake )
Steve Ditko Designed Spider-Man to be Orange and Purple
(tags:comics design history )
Coronavirus: Scotland records highest daily Covid tally since May (mostly in Glasgow, I hope they can get it under control)
(tags:pandemic Scotland )
UK planning to renege on the Withdrawal Agreement
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1302701541674160134.html
(tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland OhForFucksSake doom )
Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law by Separating Religion, State
(tags:Sudan Islam law religion democracy )
The New Neuroscience of Stuttering
(tags:speech genetics brain neuroscience )
The economics of the Tour de France
(tags:France cycling economics money )
Psychedelic Fishes from the World's First Encyclopedia of Marine Creatures
(tags:encyclopedia fish history )
Scientists Discover Exposed Bacteria Can Survive in Space for Years
(tags:bacteria space )
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